closeting

“We have no visibility, people are dying, and this whole world is just closeting everything.”

And because he is closeting up his doubts and fears, his subsequent eruptions into madness, when words abruptly morph into howls, have a harrowing logic.

Soon he was closeting himself in his room listening raptly and endlessly to John Gielgud reciting Clarence’s speech from “Richard III,” desperately attempting to obliterate his Jersey accent.

For a day or two, indeed, there was much running to and fro, much closeting and button-holing; for rather longer the secretary read anxiety and apprehension in one countenance--Lady Betty's.

They remembered that Morgan had been185 latterly unusually reserved and unsociable, closeting himself with a few English confidants, to whom he had been seen whispering even during public conferences.